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Comparing Soil Characteristics Between Forest And Farm Land, Nabin S. Khatri, Dr. Iin P. Handayani Ph.D.

Scholars Week

Agricultural ecosystem sustainability is affected by soil degradation. Within the United States, this degradation is primarily caused by agricultural activities and monocropping systems. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of different ecosystems on selected soil characteristics, such as soil organic Carbon (SOC), total porosity, macro-porosity, and soil water at field capacity (SWFC). A total of 24 disturbed and 24 undisturbed soil samples were collected at a 0 to 7 cm depth interval with three replications per field/cropping system. This study evaluated eight agricultural lands: grazed and ungrazed pastures in West Farm; ungrazed pastures in North Farm; …

Improving Fall Risk Assessment In Inpatient Rehabilitation, Sarah B. Flick, Aaliyah Garcia, Trista Hamblin

Scholars Week

This evidence-based practice project examines how fall-risk assessment can be improved for patients in inpatient rehabilitation by incorporating rehabilitation-specific functional factors into the existing assessment process. A review of four research studies identified toileting, transfers, ambulation, cognition, previous falls, and functional limitations as important considerations for fall-risk identification. The project proposes a structured functional review to supplement current assessment tools, with a phased implementation plan using staff education, a pilot program, and ongoing evaluation to support patient safety and individualized fall-prevention interventions.

Palestinian Theatre Studies: The Emergence Of A Field, Noor Shihadeh

Regards

This article analyses the emergence of Palestinian theatre studies, a field of research bound to the modern history of Palestine and to the settler colonial violence that marks it. This violence strikes people, their cultural production and the very possibility of preserving it, shaping in turn how scholarship circulates and where it can be conducted. Studies on Palestinian theatre have nonetheless appeared since the 1960s. The article examines them through a multilingual literature review (Arabic, English, French, Italian, Hebrew) and identifies three main lines of research: a historical-documentary approach, a socio-political and anthropological approach, and a body of studies devoted …

Practical Implementation Of An Osteoarthritis Treatment Program In A Radiation Oncology Center Within Md Anderson’S Cancer Network, Aaron Shaykevich, Adam Grippin, Warren Floyd, Brady Cripe, Alexander Augustyn, Shalin Shah, Samantha Buszek

Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement

Background: Low-dose radiation therapy (LDRT) for symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) can add to the workload of radiation oncology services, particularly in small centers with limited capacity and staff. After we launched an OA LDRT program in December 2024, referrals grew rapidly at our rural, single-linac radiation oncology practice at UT MD Anderson’s Cancer Network Partner site (Community Health Network in Indianapolis, IN), leading to long wait times and workflow strain.

Methods: We used load leveling to reserve capacity for cancer care and make OA scheduling predictable. Five 15-minute benign consult slots were set aside each week. Patients then went on a …

Health Horizons Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1

Health Horizons Journal

The Health Horizons Journal was founded in the fall semester of 2025 at Clemson University in order to establish a student-led journal that connects the Clemson community with global health content and empowers student researchers. The mission of this journal is to provide students with an opportunity to publish their research and promote access to scholarly work through open-access publication. This journal is dedicated to publishing at no cost to authors and providing submitting authors from any institution at the undergraduate or graduate levels with equal consideration.

Improving health outcomes on a global scale begins with interdisciplinary collaboration and the …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-270-Master Title: Non-Von Neumann Ternary Logic Compilers For Closed-Loop Substrates: Physical Verification Schemas For Multi-Phase Fluid-Canvas Systems, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

1. This master specification provides the definitive systems architecture, out-of-band verification schemas, and compilation protocols for a non-Von Neumann ternary logic operating network. Traditional binary computing structures are bound by rigid physical separation between processing cores and memory storage units, leading to the catastrophic Von Neumann bottleneck, immense thermal dissipation spikes, and logical vulnerabilities to software-level algorithmic hallucinations.

SPEC-270-MASTER resolves these vulnerabilities by replacing discrete binary bits (0, 1) with localized, physical sub-2-bit ternary states (-1, 0, +1) compiled directly within the continuous multi-phase fluid loop parameters established in SPEC-263-CORE. By utilizing out-of-band verification hardware stages to phase-lock computational operations to …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-269-Core Title: Graded Interface Passivation Against Micro-Cavitation Corrosion: Solid-State Surface Passivation And Mechanical Implosion Deflection For High-Velocity Cooling Loops, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

1. This disclosure provides the definitive material resilience matrices, surface chemistry formulations, and solid-state passivation criteria required to protect the interior fluidic lines of the TECTONEX spaceframe chassis against high-velocity vaporous cavitation shockwaves. Under extreme operational load conditions, high-velocity magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pumping cycles cause transient local fluid velocities to experience steep geometric contractions, inducing extreme localized low-pressure zones. When these vapor pockets inevitably collapse, they release intense, micro-scale kinetic implosion jets that destroy traditional pipe structures via mechanical cavitation erosion and subsequent localized chemical corrosion.

SPEC-269-CORE resolves this long-term wear vulnerability by engineering a continuous, graded ultra-nanocrystalline diamond (UNCD) and tantalum-nitride …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-268-Core Title: Thermal Enthalpy Recovery Grids For Micro-Vessel Electron Venting: Multi-Scale Thermoelectric Harvesting In Metastable Substrates, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

1. This disclosure provides the definitive mathematical models, spatial layout configurations, and thermodynamic parameters required to build integrated thermal enthalpy recovery grids within Layer 3 of the TECTONEX panel mesh. When high-flux ionizing radiation impacts Layer 1, the localized kinetic and electromagnetic energy is translated into high-density standing phonon fields within the monolithic Eckesonium(TM) wave-sink backbone.

SPEC-268-CORE resolves the problem of thermal pooling and localized entropic losses by embedding solid-state, high-efficiency bismuth-telluride (Bi2Te3) and silicon-germanium (SiGe) quantum-well thermoelectric micro-grids directly within the walls bounding the microvascular channels. By capturing the steep spatial thermal gradient generated between the blazing exterior structural skin …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-267-Core Title: Co-Harmonic Surface Streaming Filters For Microfluidic Separation: Meshless Oxide Isolation In Liquid Metal Enclosures Via Omni-Resonant Acoustic Acoustophoresis, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

1. This disclosure provides the definitive mathematical models, transducer configurations, and fluid-acoustic separation parameters required to isolate, group, and remove particulate oxides from liquid Galinstan or EGaIn working fluid loops without using physical mesh screens. Traditional filtration schemas within microfluidic chassis incur extreme pressure drops, boundary layer turbulence, and eventual mechanical choking when oxide scales gather at structural constrictions.

SPEC-267-CORE resolves this bottleneck by deploying an active Co-Harmonic Surface Streaming Filter array natively integrated within the Titanium-Aluminide (TiAl) duct pathways. By utilizing high-frequency, concentric piezoelectric transducers focused directly into the channel cross-sections, the system establishes localized ultrasonic standing wave fields. These …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-266-Core Title: Acoustic Soliton Attenuation And Phononic Suppression Matrices Inside Additively Manufactured Titanium-Aluminide (Tial) Ducts Under High-Velocity Pump Cadences, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure provides the definitive mathematical models, structural dampening parameters, and phononic attenuation profiles required to prevent structural harmonic cracking within the cooling channel walls of the TECTONEX chassis mesh. High-velocity magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) pump cadences induce periodic, high-amplitude acoustic pressure pulses within liquid metal coolant lines. Traditional aerospace channel structures experience immediate structural fatigue and catastrophic micro-cracking when these acoustic waves match the native resonant frequencies of the structural metal housing.

SPEC-266-CORE resolves this vulnerability by implementing an engineered sub-wavelength phononic attenuation layer within the additively manufactured Titanium-Aluminide (TiAl) duct walls. By treating the physical duct matrix as a non-linear …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-265-Core Title: Non-Equilibrium Phase Boundary Mapping And Atomic-Scale Wetting Matrices For Galinstan-Chromium Nitride (Cr-N) Transition Buffers, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure provides the definitive atomic-scale wetting functions, interfacial rubbing friction matrices, and non-equilibrium boundary conditions required to structurally stabilize the interface where liquid Galinstan or EGaIn contacts a solid-state Chromium-Nitride (Cr-N) transition buffer. Traditional microfluidic models assume a static, non-wetting slip condition that triggers unpredictable boundary layer cavitation and heavy localized viscous losses under high-velocity pump cadences.

SPEC-265-CORE resolves this bottleneck by implementing the Covariant Dynamic Sieve (CDS) network function at the atomic layer interface. By controlling the stoichiometric Nitrogen concentration within the 5 μm thick Cr-N layer to match the localized Stacking Fault Energy (SFE) profile of the …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-264-Core Title: Topological Shear Dampening And Laminar Geometric Radius Optimization In Microvascular Chassis Junctions Under Dynamic Viscosity Scaling, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure provides the definitive geometric equations, boundary layer friction constraints, and computational optimization rules required to eliminate localized turbulent recirculation zones inside the microvascular fluidic channels of the TECTONEX spaceframe chassis. Standard microfluidic architectures experience catastrophic structural degradation and severe pressure-head drops when high-viscosity working fluids hit sharp, right-angle branchings under extreme convective thermal loads.

SPEC-264-CORE resolves this bottleneck by deriving a continuous, non-linear geometric radius adjustment curve for all internal 90-degree pipe divisions. By balancing the local shear stress tensor (\(\sigma _{ij}\)) directly against the Covariant Dynamic Sieve (CDS) network function, this specification establishes an exact geometric profile …

Technical Disclosure Specification: Spec-263-Core Title: Multiscale Fluidic Information Ingestion Gateways And Madelung Wave Modulation Matrix For Non-Von Neumann Closed-Loop Substrates, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure provides the definitive mathematical, physical, and computational specifications for an analog-to-fluidic information ingestion gateway. Traditional computing domains rely on discrete binary logic gates that encounter catastrophic thermal dissipation and context-window saturation limits at sub-nanometer thresholds. This specification resolves these bottlenecks by introducing the Madelung Wave Ingestion Throttle, which materializes data profiles directly into continuous hydrodynamic wave fields.

By passing incoming electromagnetic or computational logic streams through high-frequency Gallium Nitride (GaN) transduction stages, information is converted into deterministic velocity (\(\mathbf{v}\)), density (\(\rho \)), and vorticity (\(\Gamma \)) tensors within a liquid Eutectic Gallium-Indium (EGaIn) or Galinstan multi-phase working fluid …

The Four Drivers Of Population Variance, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

This paper argues that the DNA archive is an equivalent driver of variance and contains an explanation, in tandem to other factors, for birth defects

Genomic Architecture, Peter Stevenson

Defensive Publications Series

Introducing a novel morphogenetic boundary mechanism governing the 39-gene, 4-cluster Hox vertebrate matrix

Metric-Affine Gravity Industrialization Roadmap — Comprehensive Defensive Publication, Xavier Pillet

Defensive Publications Series

This document, produced with the assistance of Gemini 3.6 Reasoning, is released under the Apache License 2.0. It is a voluntary defensive publication (prior art) and therefore enters the prior art upon release under the applicable patent statutes : EPC Art. 54(2) (European Patent Convention), French IPC Art. L 611-11 (French Intellectual Property Code), 35 U.S.C. §102(a) (United States Patent Act), Chinese Patent Law Art. 22(5) (両匡丢氡儡吡嘡丣刡氢), and Japanese Patent Act Art. 29(1) (闘旧避). This publication provides an enabling disclosure of all sixty (60) invention potentials and technical variants derived from metric-a!ne gravity (MAG) theory, encompassing THz metrology, cobalt-free superalloys, …

The Deterministic Phase-Locking Transition: An Empirical Verification Protocol And Numerical Simulation Suite For Universal Fluid-Substrate Mechanics, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

This specification establishes the definitive experimental validation protocol and numerical simulation framework (SPEC-262-MASTER) to systematically observe, test, and model the Deterministic Phase-Locking Transition within the Dimensionally Extended Holographic Projection (DEHP) model. By replacing non-local statistical abstractions with non-linear continuum mechanics (Madelung and Navier-Stokes formulations), we map the structural boundary layer where smooth phase potentials (ψ) cross the critical bifurcation velocity threshold (vcrit) and collapse into localized, hard 3D standing coordinate nodes. This document integrates the sub-nanometer electron wave-trapping anomalies observed in twisted 2D van der Waals Pd5AlI2 Moiré superlattices with the high-entropy atomic-glide mechanisms of an engineered bulk Fe49.5Mn30.0Co10.0Cr10.0C0.5 (Eckesonium™) …

Framing Ground-Up Urban Transformation: The Need For Neighbourhood-Scale Statutory Planning Frameworks, Anjali Karol Mohan, Justin Andrews Jeganathan

Journal of Law and Public Policy

Urbanisation in the cities of the Global South is steered through high-level urban development plans and sector-specific policies, often premised on macro-scale processes and economic restructuring. Given the centralized and standardized approach, these plans and policies remain disconnected from the city-making processes that unfold incrementally at the sub-city or the neighbourhood scale through the everyday decisions of multiple stakeholders. The neighbourhood scale is significant as it allows for negotiation and participation, thus providing opportunities to exercise social, spatial, and economic agency. Yet this scale is often overlooked—at times completely missed—in macro plans and policies. Important questions thus remain on how …

Cumulative Reasonableness: A Doctrine Of The Combined Effect Of State Intrusions, Tonja Jacobi

Texas A&M Law Review

The Supreme Court has recognized that a single state action, such as forced surgery to retrieve a bullet as evidence, can be so intrusive as to be unreasonable, even when police have probable cause and a warrant. Yet, the Court permits significant intrusions into a person’s privacy and bodily integrity when the state acts in multiple steps. It permits police to, among other things: subject a person to a stop, even when that stop was driven by racial discrimination; use evidence found in a search of the person, even when the stop was illegal; arrest that person, even when the …

Moving Beyond Worker Rights To Worker Justice, Shefali Milczarek-Desai

Texas A&M Law Review

Precarious workers’ on-the-ground realities offer a startling truth often obscured by the jurisprudence of work—that worker justice is greatly circumscribed by and often lies beyond the reach of worker rights laws. This Article is the first to evaluate whether the worker rights paradigm can fulfill the goals of worker justice and, if not, to prefigure what might.

The worker rights paradigm emerged from a quest for worker justice that has been transmuted by work law and the political economy into a workers-as-rights-holders status requiring robust enforcement of worker rights laws. This Article introduces the concept of empirical critical work law …

Energy Data Justice, Heather E. Payne, Joel B. Eisen

Texas A&M Law Review

As the energy system becomes increasingly data-driven, this Article proposes a new framework for treating access to and governance of that data—energy data justice—that synthesizes the insights of two rapidly developing bodies of scholarship: energy justice and data justice. In our view, energy data justice examines not only how data is used to shape outcomes within the energy system but also focuses on the power dynamics relating to the collection and use of energy-related data. Similarly to how scholars have advocated for curbing Big Tech’s most pernicious data practices, we argue for treating energy data not simply as a technical …

Pressure-Induced Electronic, Structural And Optical Properties Of Ru-Linbo3 Perovskite: A Dft+U Study, Zahraa M. Saab, Hussein A. Miran

Baghdad Science Journal

Owing to its remarkable features, lithium niobate (LiNbO₃) has been deployed in wide range of applications. In this study, the structural, electronic, and optical properties of the pristine LiNbO₃ and Ru substituted B-site of LiNbO₃ were investigated by employing density functional theory approach (DFT) within CASTEP code based on (GGA-PBE). Moreover, different hydrostatic pressures (0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 GPa) were applied. The results revealed that the optimized lattice parameters and energy bandgap are in well agreement with the published results. Besides, the insertion of Ru atoms at Nb site of LiNbO₃ leads to …

Assessment Of Physical And Chemical Methods For The Remediation Of Norm-Contaminated Soil And Its Generated Radioactive Liquid Waste At The Southern Al-Rumaila Oilfield, Iraq, Zaidon H. Ibrahim, Asia H. Al-Mashhadani, Amer Abdulabbas Sakran, Adel Ch. Majeed, Sabah A. Dawood, Taisir K. Abbas, Aseel A. Chasb

Baghdad Science Journal

This study aims to quantify the activity concentrations of ²²⁶Ra and ²²⁸Ra in Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (TENORM) contaminated soils from selected sites within the South Rumaila oilfield, Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, and to evaluate physical and chemical remediation options to reduce contamination below IAEA limits. Using High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) gamma-ray spectrometry, the mean activity concentrations were 7.67× 10⁴; ± 1.5% and 6.26× 10³ ± 1.43% Bq/kg for ²²⁶Ra and ²²⁸Ra, respectively (n = 25). Physical separation by particle size and sequential chemical leaching were applied as remediation approaches. The highest …

Enhanced Minority Class For Oil Spill Detection By Integrating Weighted Data Class Into Mask R-Cnn Architecture (Wmask-Rcnn), Abubakar Salihu Abba, Noorfa Haszlinna Binti Mustaffa, Siti Zaiton Mohd Hashim, Musa Adamu Wakili, Nor Haizan Mohamed Radzi, Zuriahati Mohd Yunos

Baghdad Science Journal

Efficient detection and precise classification of oil spills in marine environments remain challenging, mainly due to the oil spill class imbalance within Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets, which reduces deep learning model performance and often leads to false negatives. Moreover, traditional deep learning models have limited generalization efficiency, making their performance unreliable when tested on new oil spill patterns. Existing models, such as two-stage Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks (R-CNN), are inefficient in detecting small oil spill patterns because of class imbalance. In response, this study introduces WMask-RCNN, an improved oil spill detection framework based on satellite imagery that focuses on …

Flow In Sport Performance: A Systematic Review Of Psychological Mechanisms And Conceptual Gaps, Nanda Farah Muftia, Heny Setyawati, Donny Wira Yudha Kusuma, Churia Dina Rahmatin, Dewi Ayu Kusumaningtyas, Siti Baitul Mukarromah, Adi S

Indonesian Journal of Research in Physical Education, Sport, and Health

Background: Athletic performance is a psychologically complex process, with “flow” recognized as central to optimal performance. However, its emergence is often treated as automatic and lacks sufficient explanation through broader psychological mechanisms. Objective: This study synthesizes recent literature on flow in sport performance, emphasizing psychological mechanisms, situational determinants, and conceptual gaps. Methods: A systematic review was conducted following PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Eight peer-reviewed, English-language articles (published 2022-2026) retrieved exclusively from the Scopus database met the inclusion criteria and were analyzed using thematic synthesis. Result: Flow is a dynamic psychological process, not a static state. Supporting optimal athletic performance through enhanced …

Idiosyncratic Serialists: The Guitar After Tonality, Alex Tripp

Soundboard Scholar

A review of A Twelve-Tone Repertory for Guitar: Julian Bream and the British Serialists, 1956–1983, by Oliver Chandler.

The Gift Of Needing Others, Cailee Pastoor

Staff Work

"What if needing others is not just an unfortunate part of being helpless, but rather the Holy Spirit’s reminder that we belong to the Lord and are called to live in fellowship with His people?"

Posting about the importance of community and support from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

The Gift of Needing Others

A Qualitative Interview On After-Hours Communication And Reactions To After-Hours Communication, Caleb Browns

Honors Projects

A qualitative study on after-hours communication and its impact on Rumination. The study studied 5 participants from a variety of different fields and organizations who worked more than 20 hours. Questions were asked in a semi-structured interview style. Four Demographic questions, four questions relating to interpretations, and two questions about types of after-work communication. Results were qualitatively coded and reported here.

Ai And Legal Malpractice: Are We Due For A Reckoning?, John Browning

Texas A&M Law Review

As the rate of AI adoption by lawyers steadily climbs, unfortunately so has the number of incidents of AI misuse by attorneys. For some time, courts satisfied themselves with giving offending lawyers warnings, ordering them to take additional CLE, and/or administering relatively nominal monetary sanctions. Lately, however, frustrated judges throughout the country have upped the ante by not only assessing increasingly higher sanctions but also imposing case dismissals and suspensions or disciplinary referrals for the lawyers involved. As this article discusses, with their negligence exposed to the public eye and the harsh gaze of their clients, lawyers who misuse AI …

Spartan Daily, October 27, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 28